The elephants fight but the rats go about their business. — Ian McDonald

His theory of golf is, never play any sport that requires you to dress as your grandfather.

"This is now a matter of national security, sir."

"This is Franz Kafka, is what it is."

Tom Hanks looks at chair-rocker, who writes the name down.

"He's a Czech writer," Thomas Lull says. "He's been dead a hundred years. I was attempting irony."

"Sir, please do not attempt irony. This is a most serious issue."

How proud he would have felt [...] to have seen those seeds germinate into a Muslim nation, a Land of the Pure. How it would have broken his heart to see that Land of the Pure become a medieval theocracy and then rip itself apart in tribal factionalism. The Word of God prophecies from the barrel of an AK47.